Confetti gun



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- G. G. RUTHERFORD CONFETTI GUN Filed June 28. 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 VE IEIFK Grace G.Ruthcr'ford Patented Nov. 3, 1925.

PATENT OFFICE.

GRACE G. RUTHERFORD, OF LIBERTYVILLE, ILLINOIS.

CONFETTI GUN.

Application filed June 28, 1924;. Serial No. 722,923.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GRACE Gr. RUTHER- ronn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the village of Libertyville, in the county of Lake and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Im provements in a Confetti Gun; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the numerals of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. I

This invention relates to means for distributing confetti particularly means for projecting a rain of confetti in a desired direction, as for use in carnivals, weddings, and the like.

It is an object of this invention to provide a simple and inexpensive package for confetti that may be used as a gun for dis tributing a cloud of confetti into the surrounding air.

It is also an object of this invention to provide a confetti gun operated as a bellows by the hands of the user, and having a directing nozzle adapted to concentrate the discharged air borne confetti upon a particular area.

Other and further important objects of this invention will be apparent from the disclosures in the specification and the accompanying drawings.

This invention (in a preferred form) is illustrated in the drawings and hereinafter more fully described.

On the drawings Figure l is a side view of a device embodying one form of this invention.

Figure 2 is an end view thereof.

Figure 8 is a view of the device folded when not in use.

Figure d is a plan view of another embodiment of this invention.

Figure 5 is a section on the line 55 of Figure 4.

Figure 6 is a section on the line 66 of Figure 4.

Figure '1 is a section of a slightly moth. fled form based on Figure 4L Figure 8 is a section on the line 88 of Figure 7.

As shown on the drawings The embodiment of this invention shown in the first three figures comprises a bag 10 partially filled with confetti and having its mouth gathered about and bound to a short tube 11 by the cord or elastic 12. The bag may be made in a manner similar to grocery bags of a tough grade of manila or kraft paper or may be formed of a cloth relatively impervious to air. Fancy grades of paper such as transparent tissue may also be used if desired for the decorative effect thereof.

The modification of Figures 4 to 6 contemplates the forming of the bag out of two pieces of paper 13 such as manila. or colored crepe pasted together in the general shape of a disc with their central portions convex, converging to a mouth 14-. in which is secured a tube 15 of cardboard or the like.

i In Figure 7 one sheet of the bag is formed of heavy cardboard 16 which is rolled up at one end to form a tube 17 integral therewith. The upper surface 18 of said modification is formed of a more flexible material bagged out to give a bellows effect.

In use these modifications are partly filled with confetti 19 -which is violently agitated by compressing the bellows and a portion thereof is carried out with the resulting blast of air. The first form also functions in this manner, the bag being graspedbetween the palms of the hands and rapidly squeezed and expanded to eject puffs of air carrying the confetti in suspension.

I am aware that many changes may be made, and numerous details of construction may be varied through a wide range without departing from the principles of this invention, and I therefore do not purpose limiting the patent granted hereon, otherwise than necessitated by the prior art.

I claim as my invention:

1. A confetti gun, comprising a bag formed of two sheets of material united at their edges in such manner as to form a bag, said sheets being extended at one end into a neck, one of said sheets being furrial bagged to give a bellows effect, said ther extended at said end and rolled to sheets being extended at one end into a 10 form a discharge tube. neck, said stiffer sheet being further ex- 2. A confetti gun, comprising a bag tended and rolled at said end to form a 5 formed of-two sheets of material united at discharge tube.

their edges, one of said sheets being formed In testimony whereof I have hereunto of flat comparatively stiff material and the subscribed my name.

other sheet formed of-more flexible inate- GRACE G. RUTHERFORD. 

